Attribute units of measure

For units of “seconds” or “bytes,” attribute values displayed in the StorageGRID Webscale system are scaled to a suitable unit. For example, durations scale to microseconds, milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, or days; bytes scale to kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes.

When scaled, the value of bytes displayed on overview pages and in charts uses the “natural” measure of powers of 10. For example 3 MB = 3 × 106 = 3,000,000 bytes. This is not the same as powers of 2 normally used for computing, where 3 MiB = 3 × 220 = 3,145,728 bytes.

Note: Scaled byte values are presented in kb, MB or GB
(powers of 10), not KiB, MiB, or GiB (powers of 2).